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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    They've released Cameroon Grimes, wankers! Wonder if he'll go back to TNA?

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6HEv42pwe3/?igsh=bDhscHk4MjhtY2x1

    A reason why i'm such a big fan.

    https://youtu.be/1SFioLhQ7-E?si=GsdGe54rdMjJ3dvS

  • DDOUBLEE
    DDOUBLEE Posts: 1,472
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    They've released Cameroon Grimes, wankers! Wonder if he'll go back to TNA?

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6HEv42pwe3/?igsh=bDhscHk4MjhtY2x1

    A reason why i'm such a big fan.

    https://youtu.be/1SFioLhQ7-E?si=GsdGe54rdMjJ3dvS

    Perfect fit for him really, also gets on really well with Matt Hardy so it makes sense for him to go back there
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    cafctom said:
    Drew is on fire. 

    Also, I’ve never ever had interest in Sheamus. And then in just one segment with Drew they were able to add some intrigue right away. 

    The Imperium split isn’t something I saw coming. Ludwig Kaiser definitely has something about him though. 
    He does unlike Giovanni Vinci who i assume is being released?!

    Priest v Jey is happening because of Punk v Drew. I assume either/both will get involved. Both are getting a chance but i can't see either being the main man. 
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    Superb, and it looks like I've voted for the right person! :wink:

    Had a look at Clash at the Castle tickets on Wednesday. Cheapest for the Smackdown & PLE double was around £175, which seems very reasonable to me for a show in an arena that small. Even the nosebleeds will have a reasonable view, far better value IMO than a stadium show. Sadly they were all gone, probably to touts, before I could secure one. 

    That said I'll definitely be trying to secure tickets for a London 'mania.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    Where would they hold it? I suspect AEW has a death grip on Wembley shows right now
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,363
    sam3110 said:
    Where would they hold it? I suspect AEW has a death grip on Wembley shows right now
    Tottenham Hotspur stadium are ramping up their non-football events massively.

    They may even just try to do a stand alone stadium show knowing they could probably sell it out even without having “Wrestlemania” on the banner.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    Also The Emirates and, shudder, The London Stadium. Twickenham has hosted live music as well. 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    https://youtu.be/2_vzi0JjCG0?si=z2zeZffE4XM422Ch
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,430
    cafctom said:
    sam3110 said:
    Where would they hold it? I suspect AEW has a death grip on Wembley shows right now
    Tottenham Hotspur stadium are ramping up their non-football events massively.
    It's their best shot at seeing a title. 
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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    The draft is awful TV.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,363
    And it hardly ever makes any sense. The rules are convoluted and make it feel restrictive to anything interesting actually happening. 

    As if 6-7 people would sit around in a ‘war room’ and decide to pick Nia Jax ahead of most of the roster. At least try and make it feel believable! 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    Most didn't change brands and the brands don't mean anything anyway as most jump between them over the year! The only ones of slight interest are the NXT stars joining the main roster. If they changed it to just Raw and Smackdown trying to sign NXT wrestlers they may have something. Overall I don't think the fans take the main brands seriously because WWE doesn't.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    Yeah a true draft night would be war rooms, the NXT roster as the draftees (and have them "workout" in a combine style thing, maybe wrestling related like who can suplex the most jabronis in a minute or who flies furthest across the ring from a frog splash etc.) and draft them from that, could even have superstars traded between the brands to get more picks, but make it one night only, preferably on a non Raw/Smackdown/NXT night
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    Backlash may be a great show tonight due to how amazing the French fans are.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/ex1MbYQOTks?si=SNvxG0_u2L_Dwl1K
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    Backlash may be a great show tonight due to how amazing the French fans are.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/ex1MbYQOTks?si=SNvxG0_u2L_Dwl1K
    Was originally planning to skip through it on Sunday, because the card looks weak. However, the hot crowd yesterday has probably convinced me to watch it tonight. 

    That noise for LA Knight was ridiculous. I am massive mark for the Megastar, Yeah. 
  • DDOUBLEE
    DDOUBLEE Posts: 1,472
    Oh man, the new Bloodline member is an absolute dud...
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    DDOUBLEE said:
    Oh man, the new Bloodline member is an absolute dud...
    There is another Samoan they've signed who is something special...
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Average card overall, but the hot crowd was probably the difference to make it enjoyable. Love that they are going to these different countries for PPV’s and the crowd are giving everything to try and get them to return again
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Wrestlemania 41 in vegas on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th April 
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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    SouthWest_Addicks said:
    Wrestlemania 41 in vegas on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th April 
    Sure if the Brock thing with VKM didn't come out it would have been in Minnesota
  • DDOUBLEE
    DDOUBLEE Posts: 1,472
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    DDOUBLEE said:
    Oh man, the new Bloodline member is an absolute dud...
    There is another Samoan they've signed who is something special...
    Oh yeah, Jacob Fatu is a beast. Will amaze a lot of casuals without a doubt 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    I wonder if Hikuleo will come over too, at 6'8 he can be the "muscle" for either side of The Bloodline story
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,363
    DDOUBLEE said:
    Oh man, the new Bloodline member is an absolute dud...
    What is it that makes him a dud?

    I don’t watch NJPW so am not familiar. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    He's not a great worker, he's fine in gimmick matches and in tag matches where there's not a lot of wrestling going on, but he's not exactly Danielson when it comes to technical stuff. Also, stuff like this won't exactly help rid that narrative 

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    He's also famous for this.

    https://www.tiktok.com/@duragvince00/video/7264609628527332650
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,363
    edited May 2024
    Have watched hardly any AEW in the past 2-3 months, when frankly WWE put itself up a few notches around Wrestlemania season and took up my wrestling watching time.

    It sounds like now could be a worthwhile good time to start tuning back in again….
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,068
    Meh, I can catch the MJF segments on social media and avoid seeing Jack Perry getting set on fire with a flamethrower. They've definitively miss him though.
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,975
    Double or Nothing was pretty good, excellent noisy crowd too. But christ, nearly 5 hours if you count the two buy-in matches, makes me yearn for the days of 2 and a half hour PPVs.
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    If it's real, I reckon MJF might regret that tattoo in a few years 😀

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